“Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.” ThinkingGivingResultsRoundsDramaticFactoriesOddsTime To ThinkFireworksPapa Book:Geek Love: A Novel Source: Geek Love: A Novel
“Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don't think I've come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I'm very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We're so complicated.” ThinkingKindAnimalLuckComplicatedCuriousBeastExploration Author:Katherine Dunn
“In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart. I think some people strive desperately to be normal, and I think other people strive to be abnormal.” PeopleThinkingHeartStriveFreakRespectable Author:Katherine Dunn
“Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to be more, and I think that those people are often - not always, but often - genuinely different in some way. Perhaps their gender orientation is not acceptable or popular, not the norm. Or, their physical design is literally, in some way, setting them apart. Or, in many cases, they feel the burden of their ordinariness so dreadfully that they strive to find some way of being unique. I think that can be a very positive thing, but it also can be negative, destructive.” PeopleThinkingDifferentSometimesSpecialDesignUniqueNegativeStriveBurdenGenderNormVery PositiveOrdinariness Author:Katherine Dunn
“Basically, we are pack animals. We may be evolving toward hive animals. The nature of the pack is that if all the eyes of the pack are on you, you are either the leader, or you are lunch. So it's a basically hazardous situation to have the eyes of the pack upon you. And I think that's really visceral. I think that's bred in the bone. That's species - deep.” ThinkingEyeAnimalSituationLeaderBonesEvolve Author:Katherine Dunn
“I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly civilized form, in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. All of this seems to me quite amazing, because it is so disciplined, so controlled. It's ritualized, but absolutely genuine. And the cultural structure built around that ritual is absolutely fascinating to me. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to promote harmony. I think that it is a stove that contains that fire in us and makes it safe and useful.” ThinkingViolenceHarmonyBoxingCivilizedRitualSocial Contract Author:Katherine Dunn
“I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.” ThinkingResearchAreasFascinatingFertile Author:Katherine Dunn
“But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingStories Author:Katherine Dunn
“It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.” ThinkingUniverseCoincidenceGetting Old Book:Geek Love: A Novel Source: Geek Love: A Novel
“But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.” ThinkingBookVery GoodAnimation Author:Katherine Dunn
“What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.” ThinkingBookUseHappensDirectorsAcknowledgeFlatteringPadsLaunching Author:Katherine Dunn
“I think that it's really important to go away and come back.” ThinkingImportantGoing Away Author:Katherine Dunn
